Chapter 736 – First Taste of War
Chapter 736 – First Taste of Battle Fruits
At this moment, a plain-clothed female cultivator named Yi Lan was also looking intently at the light screen, silently praying in her heart.
“Father, you must bless your daughter and assign her to a better school official, so that she can finish her studies early.”
However, to her disappointment, when her name finally appeared on the light screen, the name of the school official was very unfamiliar.
Xu Chuniang.
It was that newly promoted earth ranked school official whose cultivation was only in the middle stage of Transformation Spirit?
Looking at this name, Yi Lan, as well as the other forty-nine academics, all without exception, had mixed emotions.
Some of them were even mentally prepared to fight again next time.
Soon, the drawing of lots was completed, and the ten thousand scholars were assigned into a thousand squads.
Elder Zeng opened his eyes and pronounced the rules in a faint voice.
“Each scholar now has three incense sticks of time to formulate their tactics, after which they will fight pair by pair according to the number of each team until the rankings are decided.
In addition, each team only has one chance to be defeated, and defeat means they are out!”
These words from Elder Zeng caused the scholars who had been assigned satisfactory school officials as they wished, to have a look of triumph on their faces.
On the other hand, some of the others, who were assigned to the names of less reputable school officials with poor battle records, had dejected faces.
Xu Chuniang wrote down the rules of the competition, her eyes sweeping over the five teams that had hastily assembled.
She was about to learn about each scholar’s specialties and make some tactical arrangements when an uninvited guest suddenly arrived.
It was actually Xu Zisheng.
Xu Zisheng’s face was as normal as ever, as if he had long forgotten his last unhappy experience.
“Hokage Xu, if you come around, you still have a chance now.”
Xu Chuniang said indifferently, “Brother Xu, right now, I still need to formulate machinations with these five teams, so I apologize for not accompanying you.”
Xu Zisheng smiled carelessly and transmitted his voice to Xu Chuniang.
“Academician Xu, you don’t know that the rules have changed a bit for this practical exercise. The academy has prepared a total of one hundred treasures, and there is only one Purple Monarch Bamboo.
The order of selection will be based on each team’s ranking, with the higher the ranking, the higher the priority.”
Xu Chuniang frowned unnoticeably, the news she had previously inquired about was that the rewards for this actual combat exercise were a full three Purple Monarch Bamboos.
At this moment, how come there was only one?
Xu Zisheng paused and continued to transmit his voice.
“I believe in Academic Officer Xu’s strength, but I don’t think that the first time he leads a team, he’ll be able to make the team under his name take the crown.
If School Master Xu still does what he does, truth be told, there are quite a few Harmonization Stage powerhouses who have already spoken, and if they achieve first place, they will definitely choose Zi Junzhu.”
Xu Chuniang’s heart sank, sure enough, the thing she was most worried about, had still happened.
Skywatcher was even angrier, sending out a divine thought from the Soul Suppressor Pot.
“Threat! Girl Xu, this is a naked threat! Can’t agree to them!”
Xu Zisheng looked meaningfully at Xu Chuniang, patiently waiting for her choice.
In his opinion, this female cultivator was already lucky enough to be able to receive the attention and enlistment of so many great powers.
This time, she shouldn’t refuse again, right?
Xu Chuniang looked up, her lips slightly hooked, but there was no smile on her face.
“Many thanks to Brother Xu for making a point of informing me of this matter, if there are no other important matters, I apologize for not seeing you off.”
Xu Zisheng’s breath caught.
This female cultivator who didn’t know the heights of heaven, actually dared to refuse?
Did she know, in the end, what she had refused?
“You’re very good, daring to offend the seven great clans, I’m waiting for the day you take the blame!”
Xu Zisheng’s face was ugly, no longer interested in continuing to act as a lobbyist, whisking his sleeves away.
Wang Tianhao, who witnessed all of this, rarely helped Xu Chunliang to fight for her.
“Girl Xu, well done! Hey, this shitty competition, isn’t it easy to take first place?” “Oh, you didn’t say this time that you’d let me use the Dragon Sacred Tree and the Cold Marrow Ice Jade in exchange?”
“That guy in the party was too arrogant, he dared to be arrogant in front of Grandpa Hahn, you must hit him hard in the face! Of course, the exchange is also just in case ……”
Xu Chuniang didn’t pay the same attention to Skywatcher anymore, and resumed looking at the fifty scholars in front of her, her eyes slightly condensed.
Three incense sticks of time, a small half of which had already passed, did not allow her to delay any longer.
These five teams were all under her name, but there was really not much she could do.
With limited time, it was absolutely impossible to raise the cultivation level of the scholars unannounced, or to temporarily impart combat experience.
Thinking about it, in order to gain an advantage in this kind of skirmish, the only way for her to win was through formations.
She meditated and quickly came up with a formation that was applicable to this situation.
Just as Xu Chuniang stared in silence, not far away, Yi Lan was already anxious in her heart.
Although she didn’t think highly of this newly-promoted Earth Grade Hokage, she hadn’t expected that the other party would spend the entirety of this most precious period of time in a daze.
Even if she didn’t have confidence in herself, she still had to be more or less presentable.
This lack of action, is he really not afraid of being disliked by the scholars in the future?
Just as Yi Lan was rambling, his name was suddenly called.
“Yi Lan, step forward.”
“Ma Tianfeng, step out.”
“Hoyon, step forward.”
……
In one breath, Xu Chuniang called out a scholar from each of the ranks.
Then, she transmitted multiple divine thoughts to these five people, precisely the method of laying the Nine Palace Thousand Illusion Formation.
This was a formation she had created herself after perusing the formation books in the Ten Thousand Scrolls Pavilion.
Its marvelousness lay in the fact that it did not require the people in the formation to know the mechanism of the entire formation, but only needed to complete their respective parts of the action to drive the formation to operate.
“The method of laying the formation, as well as the duties of each person, are already in the divine mind. Acting accordingly, it won’t be difficult to advance into the top hundred.”
As she spoke, Xu Chuniang looked indifferent.
Seeing this, Yi Lan couldn’t help but feel some confidence in his heart.
Seeing that half of the three incense burning time had already passed, she hurriedly looked towards the rest of the team, sending out several divine thoughts and quickly explaining the main points of the formation.
Three incense sticks of time, in an instant.
One thousand teams officially began to compete against each other.
Xu Chuniang detached five divine thoughts and looked towards the battlefields of the five teams under her name.
Although the Nine Palace Thousand Illusion Formation was simplified and easy to set up, it was equally limited by one’s understanding of it.
At this moment, the formation effects displayed by the five teams were not the same.
For the first four teams, she only took a cursory glance and found a lot of omissions, obviously the people in the formation had some deviations in their understanding of the formation.
When she saw the team where Yi Lan was, Xu Chuniang’s heart stirred.
Only to see Yi Lan sitting in the center, with one person in each of its eight directions, southeast, northwest, and north, standing in a specific footwork, and the last person wandering outside the Nine Palaces, acting as an oddity and a countermeasure.
This was not far from Xu Chuniang’s “two or four for the shoulders, six or eight for the feet, three on the left, seven on the right, nine on one, five in the center” formation method.
Opposing Yi Lan’s team was a team led by another Earth-level school official.
That team put three students in the front, four students in the center, and two more on the left and right as auxiliary wings, and its formation was quite rough.
As soon as the two collided, the two were immediately judged by their strengths and weaknesses.
Only to see Yi Lan and the others, following Xu Chuniang’s guidance, urging the spiritual energy in their bodies, under the traction of the divine formation, they actually turned zero into whole, coalescing into a whole.
(End of chapter)